The fourth Sunday in Advent
We're having special Christmas music this Sunday! Our service times this Sunday will be 9am and 11am, with Sunday school at 10am. There will not be Kids' Church during the 11:05am service - families are encouraged to worship and enjoy the special music together.
Here is a list of helpful hints to help children enjoy the service
• Arrive in time to find a good place to sit. Sitting near the front provides children a better view of the Sanctuary.
• Look over the bulletin, or read announcements on the screen with your child. Inform the child of baptisms, communion or anything special.
• Let your child know what will happen next in the service.
• Help your child look up the scripture/hymns and mark it so it can be read and followed when it is time. (They know the Bible better than you think!)
• Let your child help hold the Hymnal and Bible. Even if they can't read, they feel included.
• Encourage your child to stand up when appropriate and to participate in the service along with the congregation in any way he or she is able.
• Give your child money to drop in the offering plate and let them pass the plate to the next person. Talk about where this money goes.
• If fidgeting sets in, encourage your child to draw pictures of what they hear the pastor say in the service.
• Let your child greet the pastors each week after the service. Knowing the ministers personally will add incentive for the child to pay better attention.
• Talk about worship with your child. Make sure your child knows what they think about the service is important to you.
Fourth Sunday in Advent
Reading: Matthew 2: 1-12
Magi is the name used for the wise men. No one went to college in Jesus’ days. They didn’t have schools for just anybody. Only certain people learned to read and write. So some very special people who learned to read were called wise men.
“After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked ‘Where is the One who has been born king of the Jews? We saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.’ King Herod sent the Magi to Bethlehem to find the child, telling them to report back to him where the child was, so that he could also go and worship Him. After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with His mother, Mary, and they opened their treasures and presented Him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.”
Light the candles of HOPE, LOVE, and JOY. Light the candle of PEACE (purple).
“Today we remember the Wise Men who, according the Gospel, came from the east in search of the Christ Child, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Like them, we remember the Christ Child in the giving of gifts”
Pray together
“Dear Father, thank you for the PEACE of knowing You are here for us always and forever. Please use us to help spread the PEACE of this season throughout the year. Amen.”
Here is a list of helpful hints to help children enjoy the service
• Arrive in time to find a good place to sit. Sitting near the front provides children a better view of the Sanctuary.
• Look over the bulletin, or read announcements on the screen with your child. Inform the child of baptisms, communion or anything special.
• Let your child know what will happen next in the service.
• Help your child look up the scripture/hymns and mark it so it can be read and followed when it is time. (They know the Bible better than you think!)
• Let your child help hold the Hymnal and Bible. Even if they can't read, they feel included.
• Encourage your child to stand up when appropriate and to participate in the service along with the congregation in any way he or she is able.
• Give your child money to drop in the offering plate and let them pass the plate to the next person. Talk about where this money goes.
• If fidgeting sets in, encourage your child to draw pictures of what they hear the pastor say in the service.
• Let your child greet the pastors each week after the service. Knowing the ministers personally will add incentive for the child to pay better attention.
• Talk about worship with your child. Make sure your child knows what they think about the service is important to you.
Fourth Sunday in Advent
Reading: Matthew 2: 1-12
Magi is the name used for the wise men. No one went to college in Jesus’ days. They didn’t have schools for just anybody. Only certain people learned to read and write. So some very special people who learned to read were called wise men.
“After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked ‘Where is the One who has been born king of the Jews? We saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.’ King Herod sent the Magi to Bethlehem to find the child, telling them to report back to him where the child was, so that he could also go and worship Him. After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with His mother, Mary, and they opened their treasures and presented Him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.”
Light the candles of HOPE, LOVE, and JOY. Light the candle of PEACE (purple).
“Today we remember the Wise Men who, according the Gospel, came from the east in search of the Christ Child, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Like them, we remember the Christ Child in the giving of gifts”
Pray together
“Dear Father, thank you for the PEACE of knowing You are here for us always and forever. Please use us to help spread the PEACE of this season throughout the year. Amen.”
